Thomas Lister (British politician, born 1688)

Thomas Lister (8 October 1688 – 15 May 1745), of Gisburne Park, Yorkshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who represented Clitheroe in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1745.

[3] Lister's family held an electoral interest at Clitheroe, having owned property there since the 14th century.

He moved the family seat from Arnoldsbigging to Lower Hall in Gisburn, which his father had acquired from Sir John Assheton in 1697.

The hall is of two storeys on an H-shaped floor plane, with nine bays on the south front, the central three being recessed, pebbledashed with sandstone dressings and with a hipped slate roof.

His grandson Thomas Lister (1752–1826) also represented Clitheroe and was raised to the peerage in 1797 as Baron Ribblesdale.

Gisburne Park